Gesture Drawing Examples

A few gesture drawing examples created from pastel on newsprint drawn from a live model.  The boxers name was Sal and he wasn't a huge fan of staying still.  Using a live animal is a great way to force students to have to draw fast and get the general idea of the subject down.  When I teach gesture drawings with students I do not allow erasers to force their hands to look with their eyes and draw with their guts.

Comments

[scoochmaroo]

These are so lovely.

[poofrabbit]

Thank you kindly. My personal work is very loose and gesture like already so for me it's easy, that and I work fast. :) I laugh every time I see them, because that darn dog did not want to sit still!